Pakistan: Saudi Guard-dog
When assessing why Trump bothered with Pakistan, in the first place...
Pakistan's Main Role - Mohammad bin Salman's "Shock Commando"
Asim Munir's main concern isn't Pakistan, per se: his concern remains keeping Pakistan's Armed Forces & ISI primed to serve as a stabilizing intervention force on behalf of Mohammad bin Salman (and to a lesser extent, the lesser kings of the UAE, et cetera).
Pakistan sells herself as the "reliable guard-dog from without": essentially a mercenary force, the formidable Pak military and ISI, for the right price, provide elite security and military intervention services on behalf of gulf sheikhs and have done so for decades, as documented extensively in the annals of the BCCI .
Pakistan & ISI: No Threat of Internal Politics
With Pakistan and her ISI working directly for MbS, competing princes, aspiring Shi'ite or Wahabi martyrs, and other agitators do not face possibly sympathetic or ambivalent Saudi internal security or military: instead, these threats to MbS' regime face the ruthless and combat-proven Pak military and intelligence elite.
In short, General Munir's Pakistan guarantees the security of the Trump Administration's main investor, creditor, and Gaza peace guarantor, Mohammad bin Salman, the most powerful and import single man within the entire American Empire.
Nice Story - How to Profit? General Munir to Guarantee MbS' Returns
To make Pakistani investment viable for MbS and other foreign allies, General Munir had to assert effectively dictatorial control to guarantee returns for foreign investors - in particular, his most precious investor, Mohammad bin Salman:
General Munir "Soft-Dictatorship" to Break Balochistani Veto
There are not enough "army jobs" for everyone in Pakistan: Pakistan needs hard currency, fast, and that means developing her resources.
However, the best resources in Pakistan remain within Balochistan, a restive and refractory province within the country, and one unwilling to allow exploitation of what "native Balochi" consider their natural resources...
Pakistani stock indices already returned in excess of 40% for the year, but can run more, yet, as larger and more strategic deals remain in the offing: notably, a persistent Balochistan insurgency kept Barrick's Reko Diq project and Pakistani oil resources undeveloped and the country impoverished. With "centralized" administration and renewed foreign support from Gulf States and the Trump administration, the development and exploitation of these resources enable Pakistan to repay Gulf investors and also enrich the local economy.
Protecting and enriching strategic American Gulf Arab allies requires submitting Balochistan.
Enter the Trump Administration:
... and subsequently...
